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blm

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4. I won't stop posting what matters most, old buddy.

Reply to bobthedrummer (Reply #3)

Mon Jul 18, 2016, 12:57 PM

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Remember when DU focused activism in support of Knight-Ridder reporters Landay, Strobel, Walcott? [View all] blm Jul 2016 OP

Memory Lane for longtime DUers: blm Jul 2016 #1

We wouldn't let the spinners get away with revisionism during the GOP primaries, either. blm Jul 2016 #2

Not too many DUers left that love the history or the pursuit of Truth imo-old friend. K&R bobthedrummer Jul 2016 #3

I won't stop posting what matters most, old buddy. blm Jul 2016 #4

I know you'll NGU on that. Thanks for starting this thread blm. bobthedrummer Jul 2016 #7

+1000 hobbit709 Jul 2016 #13

... librechik Jul 2016 #5

I know….DU at its best, imo. We mattered. Too many don't get that or…. blm Jul 2016 #6

You too-wow, you've been here as long as I have librechik, so, a blues tune for all those years. bobthedrummer Jul 2016 #8

^^^^^^^^^ blm Jul 2016 #9

Nice.. G_j Jul 2016 #20

It wasn't just the Bush administration that sold the war to the American people. Scuba Jul 2016 #10

It was only Bush WH cooking Iraq intel books to sell use of force to world leaders, congress, blm Jul 2016 #11

Only fools believed his lies. Others were complicit. Scuba Jul 2016 #12

The CIA was used to lie to all. They thought they were seeing top secret evidence. blm Jul 2016 #14

Millions of us knew they were lies and marched in the streets. Others were fools, or complicit. Scuba Jul 2016 #15

Guess you didn't want DU's attention for Landay, Strobel, Walcott's reporting on cooked Iraq intel blm Jul 2016 #17

Fools trusted Bush. Others were complicit. End of story. Scuba Jul 2016 #18

Gee - Landay-Strobel-Walcott and their reporting wasn't even necessary - thanks. blm Jul 2016 #19

Many within the CIA knew the Intel was bogus, but kept their mouths shut. The Exilednight Jul 2016 #16

Like Downing Street Memos revealed, intel would be fixed by WH as needed for pro-war goal. blm Jul 2016 #22

K&R G_j Jul 2016 #21

Another investigative journalist has been murdered-this one in Kiev. Danny Casolaro, Gary Webb, bobthedrummer Jul 2016 #23

Their reporting was extrodinary. salin Jul 2016 #24

It's going to be a movie, but, it probably SHOULD have been done as a documentary. blm Jul 2016 #25

Ah, you are correct - I'll take a movie, but it won't have quite the same heft that way. salin Jul 2016 #26

So many gone too soon. blm Jul 2016 #27

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